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Currawinya Nation Park Currawinya Save the Bilby Appeal Here's your chance to help an endangered Australian. Funds are being sought to assist with the reintroduction
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Currawinya
Save the Bilby Appeal
Here's your chance to help an endangered Australian. Funds are being sought to assist with the reintroduction of bilbies to a national park in south west Queensland. As a bilby supporter, you'll be a valuable contributor in the establishment of a wild breeding population of bilbies of national significance.
Bilbies are desert dwelling bandicoots about the size of a rabbit. They have large ears, a coat of soft, light grey and tan hair, and a very distinctive black and white tail.
Of the six bandicoot species that once lived in the arid/semi-arid areas of Australia, bilbies are the only species remaining. The bilby formerly occurred over much of eastern Australia west of the Great Dividing Range. It has disappeared from New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. Populations now occur only sporadically in the isolated arid and semi-arid areas of Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland.
The reintroduction of bilbies to Currawinya National Park forms part of a national strategy to recover endangered species to either their former status or at a minimum to secure the status of existing wild populations.
This is where you can help! To secure the bilby population on the park, researchers are constructing a 25 square kilometre bilby enclosure. The two metre high fence will be predator and feral animal proof, providing the bilbies with a safe haven to live and breed.
Your invitation to help
We invite you, your school, family and friends and local businesses to contribute $20 towards a panel of the fence. Each donor will be officially recognised on site at Currawinya National Park in a leather bound book permanently housed at the site. The fencing project is expensive due to the size of the enclosure. One way of contributing to the fence is by purchasing a bilby product.
Why bilbies need your help
The Queensland bilby population is the most...
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